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And We’re Back

by John Cole|  November 4, 201510:48 pm| 35 Comments

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Special props to Betty for being the only one with access to the backend and then disappearing and not responding to email. *** STERN LOOK ***

Mistermix fixed things temporarily.

Commence usual bitching about whatever.

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  1. 1.

    mistermix

    November 4, 2015 at 10:51 pm

    Testing comments

  2. 2.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 4, 2015 at 10:51 pm

    I like your new head gear.

    ETA: Auditioning as a cheerleader for a certain Washington DC team?

  3. 3.

    CTVoter

    November 4, 2015 at 10:53 pm

    Y’all rock.

  4. 4.

    RobertDSC-iPad Mini

    November 4, 2015 at 10:57 pm

    One at a time.

  5. 5.

    Betty Cracker

    November 4, 2015 at 11:03 pm

    What? Who? (Looks around..)

  6. 6.

    redshirt

    November 4, 2015 at 11:05 pm

    And so the short lived but glorious reign of
    BETTY CRACKER THE FIRST
    ended.

  7. 7.

    benw

    November 4, 2015 at 11:07 pm

    Special props to Betty for being the only one with access to the backend

    I have no idea what this means so I’m going to assume it’s so so dirty.

  8. 8.

    kc

    November 4, 2015 at 11:09 pm

    Maybe she loves email as much as you do …

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    November 4, 2015 at 11:10 pm

    This is new — the page keeps having to reload on my iPad (I get that “this page had to be automatically reloaded” message at the top of the browser page in Safari). I have not had this problem with the redesign until tonight.

  10. 10.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    November 4, 2015 at 11:14 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): Oh no. I hated, hated, hated that on my iPad. (Not on this site, but on plenty of others.)

  11. 11.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    November 4, 2015 at 11:18 pm

    We all hate appreciate you too Cole. : )

  12. 12.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    November 4, 2015 at 11:32 pm

    @Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:

    It’s annoying, and it only just started happening with this latest post (and it’s also happening with the above post). Weird.

  13. 13.

    Steeplejack

    November 4, 2015 at 11:39 pm

    “Follow me—follow me to freedom!” I knew it was going to be that one.

    Those SportsCenter ads are the best. I dare not go to YouTube or I will be there all night.

  14. 14.

    Punchy

    November 4, 2015 at 11:50 pm

    More like “Betty Cracked”, eh?

  15. 15.

    LT

    November 4, 2015 at 11:52 pm

    As one of the few who praised the change (and asked that tags be at the bottom of posts…) I feel ignored with all your railing at the bitchers, Cole. Not that they don’t deserve it, but fuck!

    Good move making the author and tag line black. (And on tags, cuz you want it: tags are on par with indexes, with footnotes. They by their very nature *want* to be at the end of posts. But I don’t care.

  16. 16.

    amk

    November 5, 2015 at 12:04 am

    FP still sux. So there.

  17. 17.

    redshirt

    November 5, 2015 at 12:08 am

    @amk: Use f.lux

  18. 18.

    amk

    November 5, 2015 at 12:17 am

    @redshirt: It’s not the brightness issue, it’s more of the cluttered layout issue.

  19. 19.

    Elie

    November 5, 2015 at 12:30 am

    Thank you, John. I truly appreciate your noble efforts to make things better. You of course know, that part of this is the joy of suffering passive aggressive slights and inuendos… but then you know — you are a progressive.

  20. 20.

    trollhattan

    November 5, 2015 at 12:46 am

    Now no longer the whitest blog on the interwebs. Yeehaw!

    Anyway, things be faster and for that I am grateful. Also, too, the forward/back arrows, once I discovered them. Supah!

  21. 21.

    trollhattan

    November 5, 2015 at 12:48 am

    WTF is the fucking ad atop the page “STOP THE DNC FROM HIRING ILLEGAL ALIENS!” with a pic of DWS, who hardly anybody knows? Weirdest political ad ever, I can’t begin to guess who’s paying.

  22. 22.

    LauraPDX

    November 5, 2015 at 1:00 am

    @trollhattan: I am seeing a wonderful ad for colorful men’s underwear.

  23. 23.

    redshirt

    November 5, 2015 at 1:03 am

    @amk: f.lux fixes all brother.

  24. 24.

    amk

    November 5, 2015 at 1:07 am

    @redshirt: cole’s mantra?

  25. 25.

    redshirt

    November 5, 2015 at 1:10 am

    @amk: I got f.lux contacts and now the world is a perpetual shade of tangerine. It’s groovy.

  26. 26.

    amk

    November 5, 2015 at 1:13 am

    @redshirt: aren’t they supposed to be rose tinted? tommy fucked up, yet again?

  27. 27.

    NotMax

    November 5, 2015 at 1:16 am

    @redshirt

    Cue the musical Waybac Machine.

         Would you like some of my tangerine?

  28. 28.

    SG

    November 5, 2015 at 1:19 am

    Is anyone else having problems scrolling down the page on an iPad? I scroll down two or three posts and then it freezes, refuses to budge until I refresh the page. And page load times are definitely worse since all the “improvements”.

    I appreciate the addition of time of posting on the subhead, but still miss a link to comments at the end of the post. Don’t most people read a post first and then decide about reading or writing comments? As it is now, you must scroll back to the beginning of the post to get to the comments.

  29. 29.

    amk

    November 5, 2015 at 1:26 am

    tommy vs bj’ers

  30. 30.

    redshirt

    November 5, 2015 at 1:26 am

    @NotMax: Fun.

    But then, I seem to enjoy every single form of music that exists, since I’ve yet to hear one I don’t enjoy – in some capacity.

    Some more than others, of course.

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    November 5, 2015 at 1:33 am

    @redshirt

    Was a Top 40 hit back in 1967.

  32. 32.

    redshirt

    November 5, 2015 at 1:39 am

    @NotMax: They had simple tastes in 1967. What little did they know what sound could make into music.

  33. 33.

    sempronia

    November 5, 2015 at 3:00 am

    @SG:

    yes, same.

  34. 34.

    Amir Khalid

    November 5, 2015 at 3:38 am

    Since everybody seems to be at each other’s throats over this site redesign, I offer this song for peace.

  35. 35.

    MMM

    November 5, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    My ESPN watching decreased significantly when Charley Steiner left.

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